Today in Rock History with Chris DeCarlo

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AUGUST 20 |  

IN 1973 THE ROLLING STONES RELEASE THE SINGLE “ANGIE” FROM THE ALBUM “GOATS HEAD SOUP”. THERE ARE SEVERAL RUMORS ABOUT WHOM THE SONG IS ABOUT, BUT IN GUITARIST KEITH RICHARDS’S 2010 MEMOIR ‘LIFE’, HE SAID THAT HE HAD CHOSEN THE NAME AT RANDOM WHEN WRITING THE SONG.  

AUGUST 20TH, 1969 MARKS THE LAST TIME THAT ALL FOUR OF THE BEATLES WERE TOGETHER IN ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS. ALTHOUGH NO ACTUAL RECORDING TOOK PLACE, THEY COMPLETED MIXING THE SINGLE “I WANT YOU (SHE’S SO HEAVY)” AND DISCUSSED THE SEQUENCE OF SONGS THAT WOULD APPEAR ON THE “ABBEY ROAD” ALBUM.  

AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROBERT PLANT. THE FORMER LED ZEPPELIN LEAD SINGER TURNS 75. 

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